Twitter appears to have spurned the advances of David Cameron and Boris
Johnson by establishing an international foothold in Ireland.

It will join a growing raft of technology companies that have set up shop in
the Republic to take advantage of lower corporation tax.

Twitter, which does have an office in London, was courted last year by the
Prime Minister and the Mayor of London, who wanted the microblogging site to
become a landmark tenant in London’s burgeoning Tech City UK project, known
affectionately as the “Silicon Roundabout”.

However, it appears that Ireland has won the tug-of-war for Twitter after